"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

Milky Way will be visible over Memorial Day weekend. When to see our galaxy Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant until May 30, 2025, as the ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

An study has found evidence suggesting that Ursa Major II is actually a compact star cluster containing a black hole core.

In a captivating photograph by astrophotographer Petr Horálek, a rare and beautiful phenomenon unfolds over the skies of ...

The Milky Way is telling its story now because it’s sick of being ignored. Once upon a time, humans looked to the glittering smudge of stars in the sky for insight into when to plant crops or ...

The “Milky Way window” in August, therefore, is when the night skies are free from bright moonlight. That’s always going to be between Last Quarter Moon and a few days after New Moon.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...